charlie parker, one of the most important improvisors in jazz, created melodies which were so strong which influenced so many people that they've become cliches of the language. for example, [plays sample] you would never want to play a whole improvisation with that, with that one idea, and in fact, most improvisations i play don't have that idea in them, but they may make reference in some way to that idea. the language of jazz is not just melodic cliches, it's also the harmonies that we use in jazz and the way the melodies that we use relate to the harmonies. for example, if i kind of outline a certain chord [ascending notes of a chord played individually] that chord wants to go somewhere else. it wants to go here. [descending notes of the same chord] now, if i'm going to improvise over those chords, i'm going to try to create a melody which fits with those harmonies. so you have to have not only a knowledge of the language, a sensitivity to what everyone else is playing, but also a sense of where you are, where you've been, and where you're going. that's tough. it's hard, but it a

not much more than a drop of charlie parker's blood on a shoe when you came right down to it.put rick at the murder scene. >> but he had a story for it, didn't he? >> he did. it didn't hold water, but he had a story about it. >> humphries recited rick's version of how the blood had gotten on his shoe, how he had went into the parker house to get a set of car keys after the crime scene techs had finished up. >> the window leading into the bathroom where big charlie had died, and noticed the blood. >> rick said he worried bambi pacing outside might look in the window and freak out all over again. >> he went in, and stepped through the bathroom, and closed the blind. >> and, oops, i stepped in the blood. >> yeah. >> but it didn't hold up? >> no. because they were already closed. >> that was the gotcha. this crime scene photo, said the prosecutor, was taken hours before rick supposedly stepped inside that house. notice the bathroom blinds are drawn. humphries argued that rick could not have closed the blinds, because they were already shut. the prosecutor said the defendant was ly

charlie: have using clint eastwood's film on tony parker? leonard: i have not seen it. lie: they say it is incredible, the best films made about a jazz artist. how is the writing experience for you? leonard: it is a desperate kind of experience. charlie: never gets easier? leonard: no. there seems to be two schools of writers, one where you work three months on a paragraph, and the thomas will school, where you write 40,000 words on the top of the refrigerator every night. unfortunately, i am in the subcategory. charlie: the idea of working three-month on one paragraph or , laboringng and being over one paragraph before you moved to the is just, that is just painful to me. -- before you move to the next paragraph, that is just painful to me. leonard: there is something that is wonderful about finishing a song you have labored on with that kind of care and intensity. going to be singing a song for the next 20 years, you want to be sure you can get behind every word. i have a lot of songs i can still get behind because i brought that kind of attention to the lyrics. charli

charlie rose: the week." just ahead, the race for the white house enters the final weekend before election day. the f.b.i., e-mail, and hillary clinton. and sarah jessica parker returns to television in hbo's "divorce." >> hello. >> mrs. roberts, do you need a lawyer? >> let's get this party started. >> i'm going to make you miserable. >> monster. >> he's not a monster. he's the father of my children. >> so your children are half-monsters. >> raised by humans. >> rose: we will have those stories and more on what happened and what might happen. >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by the following: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications >> rose: and so you began how? >> i had a dream. >> rose: is it luck at all or is it something else? >> that to me is the magic time. >> rose: what's the object lesson here? >>ab enormous commitment. >> rose: tell me the significance of the moment. >> rose: we begin this week with a look at the news of the week. here are the sights and sounds of the past seven days. allied forces reach mosul. >> iraqi special forces are

parker pledge that they did for eric. have a great day and an awesome weekend, guys. >>> good news, everyone, governor charlie baker has declared day and he is encouraging everyone to celebrate. they are saying that the lobster industry is huge for the state's economy. all of the lobsters are like i disagree, that is not how we need celebrate. >> oh, lobster all over the place. >> yes, please. >> yes, you read my mind, are up around 60-degrees. and i would say we are doing pretty well. a great sunrise this morning, it is beautiful, clear skies over host of us. the--over most of us. so grab the shareds, maybe a lit--the saids, maybe a little- -the shades, maybe a little bit of a glare this morning. and now areas of extreme drought, expanded across the western part of the state, back west of wooster county and also areas of severe drought expa nine inch or nearly ten inches for a deficit in boston, this is for this year alone. obviously the drought has been going on for several years. so we need the rain, a lot of it. none in the forecast the next couple of days. 43 in boston right now. if the upper 30s in wooster and some areas